Word: arabization
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...hills outside Jerusalem, British troops stopped a battle between Jews and Arabs. There the Jews were trying to dislodge Arab snipers who have almost cut off communications between Jerusalem and the coast. The British military commander, Brigadier Charles Phibbs Jones, made a quiet point: "Prolonged firing between Arabs and Jews within Jerusalem makes life intolerable for its inhabitants...
...British, who have been importing 13,000 tons of flour a month, served notice that they would not import food for civilians after May 15. And how would Jerusalem's 100,000 Jews get their fuel oil (which comes by pipeline across Arab lands) or water (which is pumped from .the wells of Ras el Ain in Jewish Palestine through Arab territory)? Who would run and maintain railroads, the postal system, telegraphs and ports, or patrol the borders against cholera-carriers...
...Jerusalem, the advance party of the Palestine Commission were prisoners of hate. They dared not stir out of the British security zone, encircled with barbed wire and gun emplacements, except in bulletproof cars. No Arab leader would speak to them; Jews had to talk to them mostly over the telephone...
...Damascus last week, two Chevrolet pickup trucks and two black sedans pulled up before a plaster and stone bungalow. Arab soldiers piled in bedrolls, crates, map rolls. Then a redhaired, blue-eyed man, who looked more German than Arab,* climbed into one of the sedans. The convoy filed out of Damascus, swung southward into Palestine. The Teutonic-looking man borrowed a phrase from General Douglas Mac Arthur. Said he: "I have returned." Ahead of Fawzi Bey Kawukji had come some 10,000 Arab volunteers. About one thousand more are entering each week. The Arab "rescue" of Palestine had begun...
...make partition stick without all-out Arab-Jewish war would require military intervention. Where was it to come from? The U.S. would not send its own troops. It did not want an international force-that would include Russian troops...